Murder charges have been filed against a 19-year-old man in the death of 11-year-old Takiya Holmes, one of three young children shot in Chicago in three days.
Antwan C. Jones was charged around 2 a.m. Wednesday, according to chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Takiya was sitting in a parked car outside a dry cleaners in the 6500 block of South King Drive about 7:40 p.m. Saturday when someone fired shots, hitting her in the back of the head, police said. Her younger brother, her mother and her aunt were also in the car but were not hurt.
Takiya was shot in the head and died Tuesday morning at Comer Children’s Hospital without regaining consciousness.
About 30 minutes before Takiya was shot, 12-year-old Kanari Gentry Bowers was also struck in the head by a stray bullet about four miles away, outside her elementary school near 57th Street and Winchester Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood.
Police said she remains in critical condition and on life support at Stroger Hospital.
Tuesday afternoon, 2-year-old Lavontay White was gunned down while riding in the back seat of a car on the West Side — an attack captured on Facebook Live.
During shootings overnight in Chicago, Takiya Holmes, 11, was shot in the head by a stray bullet on the city’s South Side on Feb. 11, 2017. Kanari Gentry Bowers, 12, was hit by a stray bullet also that day in a separate South Side shooting.
The boy’s 26-year-old uncle was killed and the uncle’s pregnant girlfriend was wounded.
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